St. Louis explained using Venn Diagrams
If you’re not from St. Louis, this might not make much sense, but Punching Kitty does an excellent job of breaking down local culture in this series of Venn Diagrams. Glad to see a local blog step up to where I left off during my Hwy61 days in the STL blogosphere
The influence of the southern style of hip hop known as crunk was pretty popular in St. Louis when I was there in the mid 2000s. And I’d say the St. Louis sound is definitely a southern sound. I included Nelly because he was such an influential player. A lot of people copied his style. Before him it wasn’t that cool to have sing-song elements in rap.
via brewnoob:
Dirt Cheap is a local discount chain of Liquor and tobacco stores in the St. Louis metro area that serves as “the last refuge of the persecuted smoker”. Their memorable low-budget ads featuring owner Fred and the Dirt Cheap Chicken (the mascot seen in this ad) were a regular fixture on the TV airwaves growing up in the area.
To me the store seemed ubiquitous, and with taglines like “Cheap-cheap! Fun-fun!” from their mascot and slogans like “the more she drinks the better you look”, hardly adding glamor to this young adult’s impression of beer drinkers. Indeed, the store carried their own line of Dirt Cheap Beer, presumably to compete alongside St. Louis mainstays like Nattie Light and Busch beer.
In retrospect, it’s kind of a small wonder I gained a taste for craft beer at all, growing up in the macro-brew capital and consistently exposed to ads like these for Dirt Cheap.
Jesus is Banned from Church, in St. Louis
They sure make St. Louis look dangerous… (via ilovecharts)
Driving in my Volvo car, listening to NPR, I am the very model of a latte-drinking Liberal.
I’m planning a trip back home to the Midwest in May, sans my precious Volvo s70. Wish me luck.
